strings, 200 morris pikes, 200 bills, teu dozen lime pots, a,id great quantities of arrows and darts. As late as 157, there were, among the stores t,f Queen Elizabeth's ships, 800 bows, 8 sheaves of arrows, 460 morris pikes, and 4;0 bills; nor had the gun fully asserted its supremacy until several years Mter the time of the Armada. It shotfid be added that in the case of the largest guns of the Tudors, the powder was madd up on bo;rd into cartridges in canvas cases, paper cases being used for the charges f the medium and lighr guns. Hence the comparatively early origin of the term cartridge-paper.

No picture, print, or model of the Hctry Gr. ce ? Di,t suggests t,) the roodertl technical critic that the vessel was iu the least suited for sea work; yet the ship was undoubtedly a good sailer, for, writing t,o the king on June 4th, I,,., from the D,,wns, Vice-Admiral Sir William Fitzwilliam rcpord that she sailed as well as, and rather better thau, any ship ill the fleet, weathering all save the .1I. ry tlose.

An inveuto W of her gear, ma(e in 1521. shows that she possessed a 22-inch. cable, a 20-inch cable, and an S-inch hawser. Her mainstay was sixteen inches in diameter. When she was still building, the authorities paid for streamer or pemm.nt, fifty-one yards long, fir her luaimnst, a sum f e3, and for two flags; with crosses of St. George, 10d. each. These lst may hve been boat-flags; for. of course, she carried boats, though it is not clear how she hoisted them out and in, and where she stowed them. They must have lain, possibly on chocks. on deck iu the waist. The boat davit was much later invention. Some notes s to the prices of certMn gear for off,or ships, from records of the year 1513, may be dded here: For the Triity of Bri.t,,1, otherwise the Nicbol. s qf H.qto, spirit-sail yard cost 9s. (she ws a craft of 200 ns); ll] feet of oak plank. 6..; hundredweight f small ropes, 11.. 4d.; boathook, 4d.; compass, 2s.; foreyrd, 14s.; and two gllons of vinegar, "to mke fine powder for hand-guus," A mizzenmast for the K. thcrie PomWra.te , otherwise the Sweqstakc, of 65 {or ) tons, cost 10.., and an anchor for the same craft, 20s.

Contemp,,ra W literary references to nwd matters of the sixteenth century re so rare, and so very fcxv of them re attributable t writers who seem to hve been at all familiar with the technical

As sht, wn in a list. l,-Mted in Campbell, viii., from a MS. of Dr. Samuel Knight.